The Byrdland's on fire for this one!
A very enjoyable Radio Broadcast from Kentucky back in 1995.
A bonus also having Derek St. Holmes in the band as well.
Far from Ted's glory days back in the 70's.
But he did make a couple of albums with Hard Rock
Supergroup Damn Yankees back in the early 90's.
Lately? Had to look it up but he's only released
three albums since 2007's Love Grenade.
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Correction: Ted plays a Byrdland not a 'Fyrebird', though that'd be a cool name for an axe.
ReplyDeleteHas any artist ever gone more off the boil than The Nuge? After an astonishing hot streak from '73-'81 (ten impeccible studio LPs & 1 live), he's been awful to bang-average ever since. Damn Yankees brought him some commercial success along the way, but it was shamefully wishy-washy stuff compared to what he'd done before. It makes me really sad that he squandered all that musical potential. Plus all the damage he's done with his "outspoken" comments over the years, from the disrespectful bile he spewed about Phil Lynott when he died (killing his career in Europe in the process) to all the 'political' stuff over the last 30 years.
Whatever your personal political perspective, no-one values what a guitar player thinks of that stuff but it's tarnished his musical legacy to an unbelievable degree.
Ironically, given his stance on drugs, in his own way he's been every bit as self-destructive as the worst of junkies. At least we'll always have those 10 peerless records to remind us of how great he was once.
Thanks for the correction.I even looked it up to make sure it was right.
DeleteThen my mind must've wandered off lol.
Lol. I recalled later on that Gibson also made Thunderbird basses as well as Byrdland guitars so i guess you maybe mentally merged the 2 together. We all have days/nights like that, you ain't alone (as i get older it happens more & more). : )
DeleteRemember ted for his music not his politics,live on stage he was great,the double live gonzo album one of the best live albums ever,up there with live and dangerous/strangers in the night and no sleep til hammersmith,all great live albums.P.S. not the same anonymous as the above blogger.
ReplyDeleteI wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment, and in my original post i did qualify my negatives with 'At least we'll always have those 10 peerless records to remind us of how great he was once.'
DeleteI should also have celebrated the great band he had behind him in his glory days; Derek St. Holmes, Rob Grange & the late Cliff Davies were an amazingly tight unit & the pefect foil for Ted's gonzoid approach. Their contributions too often get overlooked.
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